Removing the oil pan provides a spectacular view of the carnage. There are palm-sized pieces of the piston and connecting rod in there, in addition to lots of finer pieces of metal. We ultimately ...

General Motors is scrambling to rectify the engine failures for its 6.2-liter V8 truck engine – one of which bit the dust ...

The NTSB was unable to determine why the Cessna 150’s connecting rod failed and the engine lost power before crashing on the ...

The piston is basically a round thing on a stick (called a connecting rod) that travels in a close-fitting, round cylinder. When the piston moves all the way up in the cylinder (which mechanics ...

The cavities you see here are designed to fit the pistons and connecting rods. Here, the gas ignites and pushes the two components up and down. This causes the connecting rods to spin the ...

Conventional gasoline engines have a basic fault; their reciprocating parts (pistons, connecting rods, etc.) must be stopped and started thousands of times per minute. This wastes power ...

Besides the fact that there are no fuel-air explosions involved, these pistons are also double ... the cylinders also acted as connecting rods, tilting back and forth as the crankshaft rotates.

The piston and connecting rod are one piece, meaning the cylinder must pivot, which provides a clever way of switching between intake and exhaust. Tiny crankshaft, tiny flywheel. Everything you ...

Rather, this engine eschews conventional connecting rods in favor of a Scotch Yoke, or slotted link mechanism, which converting the piston’s linear motion into rotational motion. Basically ...

As you'll recall, the original issue rested with a screw joint that could loosen the connecting rod. The new engines have an "optimized piston rod screw connection," that should keep the ...